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Old 16th April 2009
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<back after a long absence...>

the one potential disadvantage of SSH is that it is over TCP, not over UDP. As the transmission (e.g. 802.11) degrades the encryption correction/recovery compounds with TCP correction/recovery. Extra CPU cycles and some packets are spent/wasted.

This is only a problem on dirty/poor sessions.

In two years of operating this way, I've "suffered" it maybe two three times. openVPN or IPSEC would have suffered it better.

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